Trump to Meet the Millennial Who Challenged Merkel on Refugees
- Nord Stream 2 and tariffs are hot-button topics to be tackled
- Neutral Austria’s Chancellor Kurz seeks role as mediator
Sebastian Kurz
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Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, the millennial who became Europe’s youngest head of government because he took on Angela Merkel over migration policy, is set to meet President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
The 32-year-old was flagged to Trump as a “rock star” of the European conservatives last year by the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell -- currently tipped as a candidate to be the American envoy to the United Nations.